Fall 2022 -- A new FACEBOOK PAGE for the "Historic Farnhurst Cemeteries" is available here:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079316712524
The Find-A-Grave listings can be accessed here: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2417778/delaware-state-hospital-cemetery (779 burials)
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2568624/new-castle-county-hospital-cemetery (1949 burials and growing)
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079316712524
The Find-A-Grave listings can be accessed here: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2417778/delaware-state-hospital-cemetery (779 burials)
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2568624/new-castle-county-hospital-cemetery (1949 burials and growing)
Spring 2022 -- PROFILES IN OBSCURITY -- Brief biographies of people buried in the New Castle County Hospital Cemetery/Farnhurst Potter's Field. This is an ongoing project. Check back frequently. Added a new profile 4/22/2022. NOTE: "Profiles" are on hold until I finish sorting through thousands of Certificates of Death to finalize who is buried in the NCCH Cemetery/ Farnhurst Potter's Field cemetery. This will take at least until mid-2023.
UPDATED 1/22/2023 -- ADDING FOLKS WHO DIED IN 1972, which include just two people, Sadie Cloud (white) and Annie M. Brown (black, 2 hospital stays). These records have been added to the original list of names of patients admitted to DSH between 1894 and 1920 and who died before 1973 and the database of their admission and clinical data (hospital records).
A description of the database and instructions for its use -- VERY IMPORTANT -- is provided HERE. Please read this before attempting to find someone in the database. The database itself can be found by clicking on the button, which will download the Access database to your own computer.
Remembering Farnhurst: Stories from the Delaware State Hospital, 1894-1920
Available from amazon.com for $38.95. The Table of Contents is provided here. It is once again available from the author for $32.00, free shipping and handling, and I'll even autograph it for you if you like. But note that I will be out of the country from May 15th to September 15, 2022. Send me an email at xro2581 at gmail dot com.
History of the Delaware State Hospital [for the Insane] at Farnhurst -- 1880s to 1920s
History of the New Castle County Hospital/Almshouse
Timeline of Potter's Fields
History of the Potters' Fields of New Castle County, Delaware including the New Castle County Hospital Cemetery/Farnhurst Potter's Field (1891-1933),the Moore's Lane Potters' Field (1934-1962) and the Boulden Boulevard Potters' Field (1962-1978).
After Boulden Blvd. was closed, a Potter's field was opened next to the Baylor Women's Correctional Institute on Baylor Blvd., behind the Holloway campus. When it was filled up, new graves started being added to the outskirts of the DHS Spiral Cemetery, which is the site currently being used for indigent burials.
Available from amazon.com for $38.95. The Table of Contents is provided here. It is once again available from the author for $32.00, free shipping and handling, and I'll even autograph it for you if you like. But note that I will be out of the country from May 15th to September 15, 2022. Send me an email at xro2581 at gmail dot com.
History of the Delaware State Hospital [for the Insane] at Farnhurst -- 1880s to 1920s
History of the New Castle County Hospital/Almshouse
Timeline of Potter's Fields
History of the Potters' Fields of New Castle County, Delaware including the New Castle County Hospital Cemetery/Farnhurst Potter's Field (1891-1933),the Moore's Lane Potters' Field (1934-1962) and the Boulden Boulevard Potters' Field (1962-1978).
After Boulden Blvd. was closed, a Potter's field was opened next to the Baylor Women's Correctional Institute on Baylor Blvd., behind the Holloway campus. When it was filled up, new graves started being added to the outskirts of the DHS Spiral Cemetery, which is the site currently being used for indigent burials.